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Offline buckfever 1

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Toyota Tacoma
« on: January 14, 2009, 11:54:55 PM »
When is Toyota due to due a model change with the Tacoma?  Been the same for about 4-5 years.  Thanks  buckfever

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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2009, 10:45:54 AM »
I don't know when the next change is, but the last one was one of the dumbest changes ever. With the price of fuel up, why have a tacoma thats almost the size of a tundra?

I plan on making my little 2002 taco last long as I can. I like having a pickup bed available for weekend home projects, but still get 25 to 27 miles per gallon.

They need to bring back the 4 banger small truck.
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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 07:26:52 AM »
I think the larger sized Tacoma body change was stupid.  As stated, it isn't that much smaller than the Tundra.  I own a 2004 Tacoma, PreRunner and I also hope to keep it for many, many years.  I've had more guys approach me when pumping gas asking what year and that body style looks good.  I hope Toyota doesn't hurt the sale of that model.  Previously, I owned a Chevy S-10.  I went to buy another and it was discontinued for the new model Colorado...UGLY and with 5 cylinders...no way.  I went and bought the Toyota instead.

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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2009, 02:36:42 PM »
Seeing that I can get the almost the same MPG in my 2007 Tundra as a Tacoma and the cost is VERY close.  Why would you buy a Tacoma???
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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2009, 10:12:25 AM »
Heck, I can buy a Tundra cheaper to! I regret ever letting the wife trade my 2006 Tundra in for a Maxima. She was driving 70 miles round trip each day, and gas was eating us alive. Two months later, she got a different job 5 miles from the house making a little more to. Now, though, it looks like a layoff maybe coming.

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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2009, 10:46:03 AM »
I had a taco in the 80's that got 27 miles per gallon. I drive a new taco as a work truck now and it has the get up and go but gets poor mileage. I have to agree with the concensus here it was a bad idea to go to a bigger more expensive truck that costs more to operate  also!
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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2009, 03:29:32 AM »
Funny that Toyota still makes the little truck.  Just not for the US.  The little ones are common with a 2.5 TD here in Europe and you see them all over Africa...  tough little buggers.  SF folks use them as non-standard tactical vehicles and they beat the CRAP out of them on a daily basis but they keep running.  I know of a couple times, the toyota dealer said, throw it away, we can't fix it.  So they just keep using it for training... but it still runs.


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Re: Toyota Tacoma
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 05:17:57 AM »
Toyota should have just left the Tacoma alone and kept on making the T-100